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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The Bet - Chapter 59 (Monday – week 9 Part 3 of 5)

The Bet

By Karen Singer

Chapter 59 (Monday – week 9 Part 3 of 5)

The room was
absolutely packed!There were so many
people that Mel had a hard time telling what was going on until the proceedings
actually started.Not only were all of
the lawyers from Feinbaum’s team there, but so were the entire board of
directors from Green Growers as well as a team of lawyers from Sunshine
Corporation.Mel took a seat along the
wall next to a few of the other Feinbaum lawyers she recognized.She was a minor player in all this and her
attendance didn’t really mean anything.

Harry Feinbaum
led the meeting from start to finish.His son Dick was definitely taking a back seat this time.Harry said a few opening remarks, then
started quickly around the room introducing everyone.He never used a single note about anyone, but
he nodded and pointed to every member of the board of directors without
hesitating.Then he started introducing
the lawyers that were present from Sunshine Corporation.Mel saw Richard Slatter raise his hand as
Feinbaum came to him.Naturally, he had
a seat at the main table along with Harry Feinbaum – and all the other major
players.

Harry then
quickly went around and pointed out all the members of his team.When he came to Mel, she partially raised her
hand just like most of the others had done to acknowledge who she was.

Then Harry
Feinbaum got down to business.For
something that was already a foregone conclusion, the meeting went into
tremendous detail on many of the sub sections of the agreement.Mel had a hard time trying to stay interested
from her out of the way seat.In fact,
if she hadn’t been required to be there, she would have considered
leaving.Mostly, to her, it all
eventually became boring.And she was the
one who liked contracts.But somehow the
time flew by, and before she knew it, they called a break for lunch.

Since going back
to the office wasn’t really an option, she quickly called Andrea to make sure
everything was okay.Reassured on that
front, she accompanied several of the Feinbaum lawyers to an upscale restaurant
nearby.

It was nearly
lunchtime when Derek finally got back to the office.He had spent all morning out at the job site
and he now had more problems to deal with than he thought he would have.Unfortunately, some of those problems had to
be run through Ray… pretty much immediately.When he entered the building, he headed straight for Ray’s office.

Ray had been
having a lousy morning.It was his own
fault really, he had been kicking himself since yesterday when he had lost it
at Mel’s apartment.What an idiot he had
been.But he couldn’t help it, seeing
Derek there yesterday had simply gotten to him.Well, he knew he had blown it big time.Mel was history to him.But he
still hated to see Derek winding up with the rich bitch instead.

So he wasn’t
happy at all when Derek suddenly showed up in his office.

“Hey!” Derek
said as he walked in… as if nothing out of the ordinary had ever happened.

Rey eyed him up
at down as he approached.Had he come to
gloat?He certainly hoped not.“What?” Ray asked rather unpleasantly.

Derek immediately
caught the tone of Ray’s voice.Warily,
he said.“We’ve got another problem out
at the job site.”

“What now?”

Cautiously, Derek
explained his problem.He could see from
the look on Ray’s face that Ray was in a bad mood.His tone of voice so far had only confirmed
that.

Derek wasn’t even
finished when Ray suddenly said, “Fuck ‘em!”

Derek did a
double take as he heard the words come out of Ray’s mouth.It wasn’t like Ray at all… ever!“What’s eating you?” he asked, totally put
off by Ray’s manner.

“Fuck you too!”
Ray said as he suddenly got up and walked out.

Derek was left
standing in astonishment as Ray walked past him and out the door.Shaking his head in bewilderment, he went
down to his own office before heading out to lunch.

When he got to
his desk, he was very surprised to find a plastic container on top of it.He quickly read the note attached to the top.

Derek,

As promised, I will kill all those rumors about you and
Sissy – at least the ones that I am responsible for.It may take a little while, but I can manage
it.

Please enjoy these as a little way of me saying I’m sorry.

Robin

He pried the lid
off of the container.Chocolate chip
cookies – homemade!And they smelled
heavenly.One of them quickly
disappeared into his mouth.Really
good!Just the way he liked them!He grabbed two more before putting the lid
back on the container.He could easily
eat all of them instead of something a bit more decent for lunch!

So Robin was
going to hold up her end of the bargain – that he hadn’t really made.Well, she had better squash all those lousy
rumors – and fast!Because he wasn’t
going to put up with it much longer.He
had enough to worry about now with Ray behaving so oddly.Ray had been in a bad mood a few minutes ago,
the last thing he needed was more bad rumors circulating about him and
Sissy!Especially now that he had to
worry about what he was going to do about Ray.He wouldn’t be so worried about Ray except that he had to deal with him…
and the job he was working on right now couldn’t proceed without Ray’s
input!So like it or not, this afternoon
he would have to brace Ray again… and this time get a proper answer!

He opened the
cookie container again and extracted another handful of the sweet treats.Then he left his desk and headed out for
lunch.A few beers wouldn’t hurt before
he had to deal with Ray again.

“Sissy!” Andrea
called.

Chad was back
in the same richly appointed office where he usually spent his time when he
heard Andrea calling.He put down the
book he had pulled off of one of the shelves and hurried out to see what she
wanted.He would have considered not
curtseying to her since Mel wasn’t around but… the sissy action kind of went
well with the silly party dress he was wearing.Curtsey.“You called?” he asked
before curtseying again.

Andrea giggled.She simply couldn’t help it!“Yes,” she replied.“Mel just called.She won’t be back till after lunch.She said you had some food in your bag that
you can eat and not to wait for her.”

Chad curtseyed again.“Okay,” he replied somewhat disappointed
before curtseying a second time.

“Why do you
always do that?” Andrea asked.“Why do
you curtsey like that before and after you speak?”

Chad shrugged… and curtseyed.“Mel likes it… and Robin made me do it
too.I guess I just got used to
it.”He curtseyed again – as usual.

Andrea giggled…
again.She couldn’t help it.In that dress, he simply looked absolutely
darling!Not to mention totally
ridiculous… which she knew was the real point.And all the silly curtseying seemed to go right along with the whole
theme.Especially when you threw in his
ridiculous silly voice.Totally
ridiculous!Totally fun!With another little laugh she said, “I have
go to lunch.I’ll lock up the office
here.Will you be okay?”

Curtsey.“No problem.I doubt I’ll be
leaking for a while yet anyway.I’ll be
fine.”Curtsey.

Andrea
nodded.She knew he had been reading one
of the old books that Mel’s father had kept on his bookshelf.One of the expensive antiques.He seemed to be handling it gently enough so
she wasn’t all that worried about it.And he had just reported that he had been leaking again not twenty
minutes ago, so most likely she would be back in plenty of time to record the
time when his current diaper started leaking.She giggled again at that thought.He was wearing a diaper under that ridiculous darling dress.But that thought made her add one little
piece of advice.“Just be careful you
don’t leak all over any of that furniture in there!”

Curtsey.“No problem.I’m used to being careful now.I
won’t.”Curtsey.

She nodded.“Okay.Then I’m off.I’ll see you
later.”

Chad watched as she went out the
door and locked it before heading to her car.He quickly retreated to the safety of the room where he had been staying
out of sight – just in case anyone should walk up to the door and look in.

He had known that
he would be eating the baby food for lunch that Mel had put in his diaper bag,
he had just thought that he would have some company around when he did
eat.Now he was left all on his
own.Not a problem really, just…
different.With nothing holding him
back, he opened his diaper bag and pulled out all the jars of baby food.He examined each one.A well balanced meal – if it had been regular
adult food.Rolling his eyes at his own
fate, he pulled the baby spoon out of his diaper bag as well.He totally ignored the bib that had been in
there with it.He sat on the leather
couch and opened the first jar and started eating.

The meeting was
only slightly late getting started again.Mel had enjoyed her lunch with the other attorneys, but she was really
wanting this whole affair to be over with.Unfortunately, she had to wait as the proceedings moved as slow as
ever.She knew that there really wasn’t
much more for them to cover though, and hopefully she would be out of there
soon.She couldn’t wait!

Since he needed a
few beers in his system before confronting Ray, Derek decided to have lunch at
one of the bars near the office that he knew also served a decent
sandwich.He walked in… and immediately
locked eyes with Ray who was sitting at the bar.

“What do you
want?” Ray demanded angrily.

Turning a bit
angry himself, Derek replied.“Lunch!And a drink!”

“And you
followed me here?”

“You practically
forced me to come here… for a drink… after the way you treated me up in your
office.Not to mention the damn
ridiculous way you behaved yesterday!What the fuck was that?”

Ray stared angrily
at Derek for a moment before backing down.Much more contritely he said, “A mistake!”

“A mistake?I’ll say!So I take it you were planning on having Mel all to yourself?”

Ray turned away
and stared down at the bar he was sitting at.“Something like that.At least… I
wasn’t planning on seeing you there!”

Derek said
nothing to him for a moment.Much less
confrontationally he asked, “I seem to remember you were all hot yesterday over
some money as well.What was that all
about?”

Ray looked back
up at him.“I said it yesterday.She’s rich!Really rich!”

“Oh come on!”

“No.Trust me!She is!I checked.”

Derek stared at
him for a moment again.“Are you eating
anything, or just drinking?”

Ray merely
gestured toward the drink in front of him.

“I thought
so.Why don’t you join me at one of the
tables… and we’ll both have something to eat as well.You look like you need some food more than
that drink!”

Ray looked from
the drink on the bar to Derek and back to his drink again… and back to
Derek.Rolling his eyes, he grabbed the
glass and stood up.“Lead on.”

“All opposed say
Nay!”The president of the Green
Grower’s Corporation looked around the table at all the other board
members.As expected, there wasn’t a
single voice of opposition.“So be it!”
he stated.“The motion to approve the
contract and finalize the merger tomorrow has carried.”There was a lot of low level murmuring from
all around the room.It was a moment
before it died down.

Harry Feinbaum
stood up and once again addressed everyone in the room.Since the motion has now been approved, I
think that ends the business for today.We will meet again tomorrow morning in the ballroom of the Hilton Hotel
to finalize the merger.Thank you
everyone.I know how much work we’ve all
put into it.”

With that, there
was a general sigh of relief as everyone realized the meeting was finally
over.Mel glanced at her watch.Almost two in the afternoon.Where had the day gone?But at least she was finished now… until
tomorrow morning anyway.She stood up
and spoke casually with several other attorneys as she slowly made her way out
of the room… and eventually out of the building.

She stopped again
on the steps out front to talk a moment longer with one of the other men she
had known a long time ago when her father had been alive.She finally said goodbye to him.She was about to head for her car, when she
caught sight of Richard Slatter staring at her from a few feet away.There was something absolutely domineering
about the man.Maybe it was just his
aura of confidence.She was surprised
when he started walking toward her.

“So you’re Mel,”
Slatter said as he walked up.“Daddy’s
little girl.I can see the resemblance
to your father.”

Mel blushed.“I didn’t know you knew my father.”

“Honey, I know
everybody in this business!Come to play
with the grownups?” he asked smugly.

Mel was a bit
caught off guard by that comment, not to mention shocked that he should speak
to her that way.

Before she could
make any kind of reply, he continued with a shake of his head.“Obviously Feinbaum is doing charity cases
again, because your father was a second-rate lawyer at best!And you’ll never be half the lawyer he
was!”With another shake of his head, he
turned and walked off.

Mel was
flabbergasted as she stared after him.Second rate?The nerve of the
man!She didn’t know if she was just
angry… or simply insulted… even as the tears formed in her eyes.The nerve of the man to call her father
second rate!Never mind her, the man had
insulted her father!

Hurt by his rude
comments, she hurried for the sanctity of her car.It was all she could do to try to hold back
the tears as she drove recklessly for her own office.She was amazed when she managed to reach it
without an accident… or without the police stopping her.She parked the car and hurried inside.

“How was the…”
Andrea started to ask, but she got no further as Mel ran past her, all the way
into her office where she slammed the door behind her.

The commotion
brought Sissy out of the other office.He looked perplexed at Andrea further down the hall… who was looking
just as perplexed back at him.

Chad waited as Andrea came down the
hallway to where he was.“Was she
crying?” he asked quietly.

“I… think so,”
she replied.

“What happened?”

“I haven’t a
clue.”

“I wonder if I
should check on her,” Andrea said, more to herself than to him.

“No,” Chad
replied.“Let me.”

“Stealing
himself for whatever he would have to face, he softly turned the handle on her
doorknob and pushed it open.

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About Me

For those of you who might remember me, I’m the same Karen who used to have the website My Sissy Rules Fantasy that Yahoo suddenly deleted several years ago. I still miss my website and really hope to have one back again someday, but, well, I guess I procrastinate a lot – plus, I think the internet has been doing a lot of growing lately.
Other than that, what else can I tell you about me? As I said, I’m male. An older male to be exact. One who has wished very hard his entire (and I mean entire) life that he had been born a girl. Seriously! You have no idea how much that aches in me – always.
I’ve always been small and skinny, except recently my stomach has decided it wants to be large and fat (Arrgh!). Oh yeah, I’m also very married to a wonderful woman who knows nothing at all about this side of me… and I intend to work very hard at keeping it that way.
So for me, life is good, and life is bad, and life is worse, and life is horrible, and life is great. But that’s what life is – you take what it hands you and you do the very best you can under the circumstances. And you enjoy what little bits that you can, wherever and however you can manage it.